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The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
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We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.
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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
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The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.
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When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way.
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To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
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But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.
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Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.
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